The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.